(c) the development is required for an essential public purpose or for a
purpose of special significance to the State.
(3) The Minister may, as a
condition of granting consent under this section, direct the public authority
to retire biodiversity credits of a number and class (if any) specified by the
Minister.
Note : Division 6 of Part 6 enables a person who is required under
this section to retire biodiversity credits to make a payment instead to the
Biodiversity Conservation Fund of the value of the credits in accordance with
the offsets payment calculator.
(4) The Minister may approve an arrangement
under which--
(a) the retirement of some or all of the biodiversity credits is
deferred pending the completion of restorative actions that will restore or
improve the biodiversity values affected by the development, and
(b) the
biodiversity credits the retirement of which is deferred pending the
completion of those actions are required to be transferred to the Minister.
(5) Section 6.28 applies in respect of any such arrangement as if it were a
deferred credit retirement arrangement under that section.
(b) in a case where biodiversity credits
have been created (and whether or not transferred)--none of the credits
created have been retired and all the credits are cancelled by the
Environment Agency Head with the consent of the holder of the credits.
(8)
The owner of a biodiversity stewardship site is not entitled to any
compensation as a result of the variation or termination of an agreement under
this section.
(c) in respect of development that
comprises emergency or routine work by a public authority of a kind that the
authority and the Minister have agreed to exclude from the application of this
section.